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Chapter 46 Time can be "wasted"
"Saving" time under the banner of "wasting" is better than "wasting" time under the banner of "saving".This is a "shocking" topic.If you don't make it, you will be hit by a brick.But I dare to risk the disapproval of the world, and put forward this "radical" slogan that seems to be "anti-common sense", which is really a last resort.In my years of management practice, I have encountered too many "haste makes waste" things.Although everyone seems to have a strong "time concept" and everyone thinks of a "short, flat, and fast" way of doing things, many things are always "falling apart", "halfway" or "anticlimactic". "the result of.The more you want to "save time", the more you will "waste time".Many years have been wasted, but when looking back, it is still "a blank sheet of paper", which makes people sigh.There is an old Chinese saying that goes, "When the melon is ripe, the stem will fall".

Corresponding to this, there is another saying called "a twisted melon is not sweet".These two sentences mean that everything must be willing to spend time waiting for the conditions to mature. If the conditions are not mature, nothing will be accomplished.Therefore, some time, seemingly "wasted", is something you have to pay.According to my many years of experience, the time that can be "wasted" mainly includes the following aspects: Time for cultivating people.Many managers tend to be extremely impatient with the "incompetence" of their subordinate employees-when you get things done, the cucumber dishes will be cold, so I might as well forget it myself.However, a person "can't twist a few nails even if he is covered in iron".You can't never give your subordinates the opportunity to "grow up", that will only exhaust you, and in fact, you won't be able to "save" much time in the end.Therefore, no matter how much you worry about your subordinates' "imbecility", you must not save time for cultivating subordinates' ability to do things themselves. ．Gain time to gain consensus.Many things, even things that prove to be "very correct" after the fact, sometimes have to be put on hold if there is not enough "consensus".This is something that makes many managers feel very depressed, even very frustrated - such a good thing, why can't they act immediately?
Such a waste of time!I'm sorry, I want to tell you that if you really think this is a "great thing" and you really want to make it happen, you must "be able to endure loneliness" and pay a certain amount. It takes more time to win the "consensus".Because there is not enough consensus, you will encounter countless obstacles and setbacks in the process of doing things, and maybe more time will be "wasted" in the end.Take a well-known example. Is "reform and opening up" important?correct?It almost seems retarded to talk about it now, because it's so inappropriate—the answer is "lice on the head of a bald man," plain and simple.However, in China more than 30 years ago, even if Comrade Xiaoping realized the importance and necessity of "reform and opening up", he could not implement it immediately—he had to make great efforts to win everyone's "consensus".That's why the world-famous "emancipating the mind" and "discussion on the standard of truth" movements came into being.These are all important steps to build a consensus for "reform and opening up", and it is absolutely impossible to abandon or skip them. ．Wait for the time when the conditions are ripe.

As the saying goes, "you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry", if the conditions are not mature, you can't do anything.In short, some time cannot be "saved". This is not a manifestation of not "cherishing" time.In fact, the reason why our managers have a "time-wasting knot" about many things is mainly because they focus too much on what they think are "serious things".Therefore, all things that have nothing to do with these "serious things" are trivial things, and the time spent on these things is naturally a "waste".However, this is an extremely wrong idea.Because if you can't do these little things well, many times you can't do your "serious things" at all.In this sense, these "minor details" are also big "serious things", and they are definitely worth your time to deal with seriously.Therefore, what you need to do is to actively create the conditions for doing things, or find ways to promote these conditions to mature as soon as possible.

However, "good things take time", if you still can't make the conditions mature through your unremitting efforts, you must learn to "hide your strengths and bide your time", and patiently pay the "waiting" time.Because, "enduring loneliness" sometimes "waiting" is also a kind of wisdom, and it is a "valuable" thing-this is not a negative, "resigned" waiting, but a positive, extremely Rich "aggressive" waiting.Your eyes are as sharp as a wolf; your nose is as sharp as a fox.Any fleeting opportunity will not escape your palm, and will eventually help you achieve great things.In short, being brave and good at "wasting" time may also be a kind of wisdom. People who possess this kind of wisdom must be the "big clumsy" people I highly respect.After all, it is better to "save" time under the banner of "wasting" than to "waste" time under the banner of "saving".

(End of this chapter)